Presidential Address
One of the final items on every IMS President’s to-do list is to deliver the Presidential Address at the IMS annual meeting. Tony Cai did this in August 2025, at the JSM in Nashville, and this article is adapted from his IMS Presidential Address—with assistance, as you might expect…
IMS and the Future of Statistics and Probability
Michael R. Kosorok gave the IMS Presidential Address on August 12, 2024, at the 11th Bernoulli–IMS World Congress in Bochum. He began by outlining his personal connections with IMS, described some of the functions and activities of the institute, and then moved …
IMS: What does it stand for? What could it stand for?
Peter Bühlmann gave the Presidential Address at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto. The following text is based on his slides, which you can view here.
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Each year, at the end of their term, the IMS President gives an address at the Annual Meeting. The 2021–22 President, Krzysztof Burdzy, gave the following address at the IMS Annual Meeting in London in June.
My presidential address is risqué… I am going to talk about a narrow…
Each year, at the end of their term, the IMS President gives an address at the Annual Meeting. Because of the pandemic, the 2020 Annual Meeting, which would have been at the World Congress in Seoul, didn’t happen, and Susan Murphy’s Presidential Address was postponed to this year. The 2020–21…